By: Hubble SmithStep into Bootlegger Bistro on Las Vegas Boulevard and you feel a sense of Las Vegas’ glorious past, a nostalgic period when people wore suits and dresses, top-name entertainers mingled with commoners and the entire town exuded style and class. The Bootlegger’s walls are decorated with black-and-white canvases of early casinos, a montage of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack and the Italian immigrants who established the restaurant in 1949. The smell of authentic Italian cuisine wafts from the kitchen where Bootlegger matriarch Maria Perry still keeps her hands in the mix.